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hank you for your time and visiting my website.

I hope you enjoy viewing this humble selection of visual art as much as I have enjoyed creating them throughout the years.

      Currently I am interested in exploring the seemingly simple and yet complex process of working with color, form, tonal values, and how these elements relate to one another in a pictorial life. I find myself constantly exploring new and innovative ways to design, create, and express creative ideas.

 

     Color and tonal harmony are important elements in my work. I enjoy working with traditional materials; I love the humbleness and directness of charcoal and pastels, the smell of linseed oil, the mixing of buttery hues and experiencing the luminescence that oil colors present to my completed works. In this infinite process of working with colors, forms, textures, tones, and scale; each work becomes a foundation and inspiration for the next.  

 

 Consequently, I also enjoy experimenting with different types of papers, and painting surfaces like raw wood, primed wood, raw canvas, traditional primed canvas and joined canvases creating unique forms and shapes. I have found that it is only by the process of innovation and experimentation, that one can push the limits of these materials and ideas, in order to explore and discover their distinct characteristics and present a unique expression to my viewers.

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"The mutual dependency of form and color has a Life of its own—it is pictorial Life. A painting that does not fulfill this aesthetic necessity is rather everything else but painting. Modern art differs from the art of the past in its conception as well as in its means of execution. The artist of the past copied physical Life and used arms and legs and heads as means to give his work the appearance of Life. The modern artist uses the elements of construction to create pictorial reality: he creates pictorial Life."

 

-Hans Hofmann - Address, 1941


 

 

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